New York, New York, USA
Designed with refined details and rich textures, Messana O’Rorke’s Crosby Street Loft is a 3,000-square-foot gentrified apartment that has been stripped of its industrial character with 12-feet tall Corinthian structural columns made of cast iron in it.
The Crosby Street Loft has been awarded a 2023 Future House Award by Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum Museum for Architecture and Design in the Residential Interior Design Category as Best Interior Design for 2023.
Scraped clean and fireproofed with shiny black paint, they rise from new Danish softwood floors of century-old Douglas Fir planks a foot wide and nearly 2 inches thick.
Removing partition walls has recast one of the existing bedrooms as an open-plan study—leaving this bachelor pad with just two bedrooms.
A sweeping curved wall now circumscribes the remaining guest room.
Its wide curve contributes a luxurious crescent of additional footage to the main suite, which closes behind a tall new pivoting door of fumed oak slabs.
Bathrooms have moody stone walls, light limestone floors, and oversized back-lit frameless floating mirrors.
The oiled-steel kitchen echoes the texture and blackened color of a steel architectural surround fabricated for the wood-burning fireplace in the adjoining living room.
Black miniature LED track lights illuminate wall art flexibly throughout, while the branching ten-light dining chandelier is a luxurious custom sculptural installation.
Project: Crosby Street Loft
Architects: Messana O’Rorke
Lead Architect: Brian Messana and Toby O’Rorke
Design Team: Viktor Nassli, and Juan Espinosa
Client: Private
Contractor: Bobby Henninger, Two Ocean Builders
Photographers: Costas Picadas
